Wire clothes-pin.



T, M. PRICE ea 1. w. TILLMAN.

WIRE CLOTHES PIN. APPLICATION FILED JAN.I5,1914.

1,156,810. Patented 0011121915.

EL- I 5 4 5' P2 i i A! COLUMBIA PLANuuKIn H c0.. WASHINGTON D c and claimed and stir eer r e Tnoivias M. PRICE Ania Jon-N W. TILLMAN, or coon ER, Texas.

wmn CLOTHES-PIN? V Specification of Letters Patent, Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

Application filed January 15, 1914. Serial No. 812,291: 1

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that we, THOMAS M. PRICE and JOHN lV. TILLMAN, citizens of the United States, residing at Cooper, in the county. of Delta and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Clothes-Pins; andwe do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. e

f This invention relates to improvements in;

clothes pins and more particularly to those formed of a single piece of resilient wire. 1

The primary object of the invention 15 to provide a device of this character wherebyv a plurality of curved gripping faces are em'- ployed in gripping the garment hung on the clothes line.

A secondary object is to simplify the structure of devices of this character to such an extent as to render them considerably more practical than numerous'articles in this class v now on the market.

With the above obj sets in view, the invention resides in certain novel features of construction and combination herein described wherein Y c Figure 1 is a side view of our improved clothes pin; Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof; Fig. 3 is an end view; and Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line 4- of Fig. 1.

In the accompanying drawings, we have shown our improved clothes pin as formed of a single piece of resilient wire given a plurality of coilsat its central portion to produce a centralring 1 which is adapted for slidable engagement with the clothes line C as isusual with devices of this character. Since both free ends of the wire are treated in the same manner, we will describe the various twists and bends in but one end thereof. Each free end of the wire is bent laterally as at 2 and extended in a plane at right angles to the plane of the ring 1 to form an arm 3 which has its free end coiled to produce an eye 4: lying in substantially a horizontal plane, the wire then being bent to form a ring 5 disposed at right angles to the plane of the ring 1, the plane in which said ring 5 lies, being in substantial alinement with the arm 3. It will be noted that the two ends of the ring meet at its upper side, and that one of the free ends thereof shown in the drawings will be clearly understood.

is continued upwardly through the eye 4, is

then bent downwardly around the--arm;3,r and is; extended in vertical plane, diametrically across said ring 5, whereby to form a] clamping" finger "7' the intermediate portion of' said finger being curved inwardly into the ring and coiled as seen at 6, to provide a combined clothes line stop and resilient connection between the two ends of the] finger, and the lower end of the latter being curved outwardly and then downwardly'as prevent mutilation of the clothes hanging" thereon, this outward movement being allowed by the coil6 which likewise forms a stop to prevent excessive downward movement of the pin upon the wire.

seen at 8. By this formation, the portion By reference to the various views of the jects into the plane of the ring 5 and formsa stop adapted to contact with the garment being clamped upon the line C, while the inwardly curved portion 7 also lies normally within the plane of said ring, thereby forming a line receiving. chamber between said stop 6 and member 7 By this construction we produce a resilient finger 9 which is adapted to coact'with the .ring 5 in holding the garments on the line C in a manner which drawings, it will be seen that thecoil 6 pro- As clearly shown in Fig. 4:, when the pin is in place on the line, the lowerysurface of the coil 6, the inner side of the flexible finger 9 andthe opposite sides of the ring 5. will all coact to securely retain the article hung on said line without danger of tearing or puncturing the fabric.

We lay no claim whatever on the specific construction of the ring 1 since the form shown in the drawings is common in devices of this character and it will be clearly understood that the structure to each sideof the ring 1 would operate equally as well with any form of central ring.

Having thus described our inventiomwhat we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is:

A clothes pin constructed of a single piece of wire bent to form an upright ring, the end portions of the wire meeting at the top of the ring, one of said portions being there coiled to provide a horizontal eye, and the other end portion being continued upwardly through said eye and then bent downwardly across the center of the ring to form a gripping finger, the latter having its intermediate portion curved into the ring and bent to form an upright coil, said coil acting as a set our hands in presence of two subscribing 20 witnesses.

THOMAS M. PRICE. JOHN W. TILLMAN. Witnesses:

C. lVL-Doss ED. H. BENNETT.

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